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What do you guys think about this case?
I don't think it's been discussed here yet. This happened pretty close to me....I heard the sirens and can walk there in less than five minutes. There is one part of the article that made me go 
. Let's see if anyone else can find it.
Re: What do you guys think about this case?
[The] wife, her neck swathed in a scarf as she sat in the courtroom with a relative, wanted her husband to return home.
I'm guessing the above is the part that made you
Ok, I am glad I am not the only one......
Um, you're sitting in court after just getting out of the hospital ICU where you almost died from having your throat cut. Let's not forget your husband cut both your daughters' throats too. But your honor, he needs to be at home. He was just having a bad morning, really.
Oh and my mom wants me to move after she heard this on the news. She says after the case where the 14 year old boy was beaten and died last year and now this she thinks I live in an unsafe area.
OK mom! Just hand over the $40K we will lose if we sell our house right now.
what's not idiotic about it?
I was going to say this. I'm not agreeing with her, but when I read the article, I automatically thought that she was most likely scared of what would happen if she didn't request that he return home or because of a possible history of emotional abuse, she truly thinks it will never happen again.
I realize she's a battered woman and obviously this guy has control over her, but HELLO - he's in jail, take your chance now lady. Get a restraining order, file for divorce and get OUT. She has to take her chance now.
That guy back in the house is a death sentence, pressing charges, getting a restraining order, moving away at least gives her and her girls a chance. The "idiotic" part to me is not taking her chance.
That's a simplistic and naive view of domestic violence. It's really easy to say that from the outside, and I understand where you're coming from, but in reality, it's just not that easy for the victims who are embroiled in it.
I'll be sure to give a more nuanced and academic answers when responding to posts about extremely complicated social and personal issues in the future, lest anyone think I'm ignorant of such issues in the future.
I didn't mean to be insulting, and I apologize if I came off that way. I do think it's naive to respond to a case that appears to be rife with long-term domestic violence (yes I'm assuming and yes I could be wrong since the history of the couple has not, as far as I've seen, but publicized) with a simple "she should leave", as though it's that easy for a victim of DV. If that's all it boiled down to for her, wouldn't she have left a long time ago?
I'm no expert, but I've seen it in someone close to me and I know that, to her, she feels like there's no where for her to go. No one to help her. That she's a failure if she gives up on her marriage. That she deserved the treatment. That he does it because he loves her, because he's teaching her a lesson, because she did something wrong. When your mind is so riddled with these kinds of thoughts, it's no longer as simple as "oh, hey, I should leave this bastard! why didn't I think of that?"
No one said you're ignorant. We were having a discussion and my point was that it is not black-and-white. You were making black-and-white statements. I responded to that, because this is something that I feel strongly about, not because I think you are ignorant.
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You shouldn't be bothering us at all. I'm gonna go vote for another kid now, just 'cause I find you annoying. So there.